Category: Agendas

• Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around our community.
• Centralizing News on Drupal: Wil Samson and Alex Bonilla from the Department of Medicine will provide a walk-through of their centralized news system designed to empower the department and its divisions through timely and broad publication of articles.
• Security Short: Securing your GitHub code repository is an important step in preventing software supply-chain security attacks. In the first of an occasional series on this topic, we’ll start with a basic primer on git and GitHub, explore the UW GitHub service, examine how to manage access in GitHub.

May 5

Meeting recording

• Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around our community.
• Updates from the Privacy Office: Ann Nagel, Associate Vice Provost and Institutional Privacy Official, will give an overview of new initiatives at the Privacy Office.
• Security Short: For our next Web Security Short, Peter Giles will present a “News Bytes” episode covering a handful of fresh security stories of interest to web developers and content creators.

April 7

Meeting recording

• Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around our community.
• UW Events plugin: Teri Shelton, Front End Developer on the Web Strategy team in UMAC, will introduce and demo UW Events, a new WordPress plugin for event marketing. After the presentation, we will have a short interactive feedback session.

March 3

Meeting recording

• Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around our community.
• Brand calibration: Courtney Coster, director of brand strategy in UMAC, will share an update on the brand calibration project and provide some milestones of note for this year.
• Security short: Pete Graff from the Office of the CISO will provide some tips and guidance to help you increase your security (and privacy) when browsing the web.

February 3

Meeting recording

• Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around our community.
• Generation Z: Designer Clarita Hinojosa will share findings about this group of prospective students and their families to help inform messaging and design.
• Clipboard security tips: We use copy-and-paste every day in our digital world. In this security short, Jeane Marty from the Office of the CISO will look at a couple of clipboard-related tools and tasks, and share some tips on how to use them securely.

January 6

Meeting recording

• Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will share the latest news and notes from around the UW web.
• Using Data in Storytelling: Rebecca Gourley, digital content producer for UW News, will share easy (and free) ways to start incorporating accessible data in your web stories. (Mentioned: Accessible Data Visualization in Tableau)
• Security Shorts: Pete Graff from The Office of the CISO will talk about the risks and benefits of using third party code in your applications.

December 2

Meeting recording 

• Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will share the latest news and notes from around the UW web.
• Distilling Drupal: Alex Bonilla and Wil Samson from the Department of Medicine will provide a walk-through of a new customized Drupal system designed to empower the editor with a streamlined experience.
• Sanitizing user input: In this security short we’ll cover sanitizing user-supplied content, why it is important for the security of your web site, and what tools are available to help keep user input squeaky clean.

November 4

Meeting recording

Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around our community.

Storytelling: UMAC Creative Director Murphy Gilson thinks the secret to our species’ success may have something to do with our ability to tell great knock-knock jokes. Discover how storytelling is crucial to our survival and how you can stop being boring at parties.

Security Shorts: Hot off the press – Software supply chain attack hits web development community.  Peter Giles, senior developer & data analyst will take a look at the recent UA-Parser-JS NPM package compromise.

October 7

Meeting recording

Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will give us the latest news and notes as Autumn Quarter gets underway.

New UW WordPress theme overview: Teri Shelton, Front-End Developer in UMAC, will give us an overview of the new UW WordPress theme, including a live demo showing how easy it is to create a rich, engaging web page using the new theme components. Q&A session to follow.

August 26, 2021

Meeting recording 

Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will give us the latest news and notes as we prepare for the upcoming academic year.

WordPress Theme Update: Lauren Caple, associate director of web development, will be joined by Teri Shelton, front end developer, to provide a status update on the new WordPress template in development.

Back-to-School Communications: We will get an overview of messaging and toolkits from:

• Courtney Coster, director of brand marketing strategy
• Jacob Kelly, social media digital strategist & community manager
• Genevieve Haas, director of executive communications